AP - The weird world of dinosaurs has just gotten a tad more bizarre. Scientists found a nearly complete fossil of a new dinosaur that sports a noticeable hump, maybe as possible advertising.

AP - The unprecedented turtle rescue effort at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is winding down.

AP - A water main break at NASA's spaceport put launch preparations on temporary hold Wednesday for the next-to-last shuttle flight.

Science scorned

Nature 467, 133 (2010). doi:10.1038/467133a

The anti-science strain pervading the right wing in the United States is the last thing the country needs in a time of economic challenge.

A destabilizing force

Nature 467, 133 (2010). doi:10.1038/467133b

Public allegations threaten the impartiality of misconduct inquiries.

Palaeontology: Leaf-like history of lacewings

Nature 467, 134 (2010). doi:10.1038/467134a

Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA doi:10.1073/pnas.1006460107 (2010)The discovery of two well-preserved fossil lacewings from northeast China shows that insects had evolved leaf-mimicking shapes 165 million years ago — well before flowering plants rose to dominance.Although their camouflage is

Plenty of university graduates are working in low-skilled jobs

Young people often worry whether the qualification for which they are studying will stand them in good stead in the workplace. According to the OECD, college and university leavers are better placed in the labour market than their less educated peers, but this advantage is not even in all countries. Young graduates living in Spain are particularly likely to end up taking low-skilled work, while those in Luxembourg rarely take anything other than a graduate job. American and British students appear to have the biggest incentive to study: British graduates aged 25-34 earn $57,000 on average. Their Swedish peers earn $37,400.

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Working days lost due to labour disputes

WORKERS on London's underground rail network begin a strike on Monday September 6th, while across the channel French workers are also on strike in protest at attempts by the government to change the retirement age. Both countries come fairly high on the list of countries that lose working days to labour disputes. South Africa, where Cosatu, a federation of unions with some 2m members, has been on strike since August 18th, also scores highly on this measure. But all of these places are left in they shade by the Canadians, who lost 2.2m working days to strikes last year. Greece, which is also fond of striking, does not appear on this chart as its numbers are not comparable.

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The internet has become too important for governments to ignore

GOVERNMENTS are increasingly finding ways to enforce their laws in the digital realm. The most prominent is China’s “great firewall”. But China is by no means the only country erecting borders in cyberspace. The OpenNet Initiative, an advocacy group, lists more than a dozen countries that block internet content for political, social and security reasons. They do not need especially clever technology: governments go increasingly after dominant online firms because they are easy to get hold of. In April Google published the numbers of requests it had received from official agencies to remove content or provide information about users. For more on how governments and companies are erecting borders in cyberspace see article.

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